[computer-go] Remarks on the Indigo-Paper

[Don Dailey]

I think you missed the point of Chrilly's post.  

His point is that you need all of these things (the good development
environment) in order to support the development of a strong GO program,
not to make a weak GO program.   

I think Chrilly is right on the mark, you must start with really good
support in order to be successful.

In fact, almost everything in life works like this.  You start with the
best tools you can get before doing anything worthwhile, to save you a
whole lot of time later and make it possible to create something
superior. 

- Don




On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 15:33 -0700, steve uurtamo wrote:
> > A programm is in my opinion best improved by (the
> > points are sorted by 
> > priority):
> > 1) Making a good development environment. E.g. a
> > good GUI, a database to 
> > store test positions, a set of testcases, a well
> > defined procedure to test 
> > the versions, Coding standards.
> 
> 1) is nice for other people to understand what
> you're doing, but it doesn't say much about the
> strength of the internal algorithms/ideas
> involved, which will always be the limiting
> feature of a go program, wouldn't you agree?
> 
> even the best gui with the clearest DB schema,
> a fantastic testing setup, versioning, and
> beautiful code is merely a sort of antiseptic
> oddity if it doesn't play go very well...
> 
> s.
> 
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